like a sheep especially the horns on the top.
Chinese distinguish the sheep from goat by adding a adjective character to form a two character word:
Sheep is Cotton Sheep， Goat is Mountain Sheep.
Its Bronze script is
Its Bronze script is
Its Big seal script is
All are like a sheep or goat.
Its Small seal script became to
which is like the Shell Bone script, but the horns are not very like sheep horns anymore.
The Clerical script is
which is like the Shell Bone script, but the horns are not very like sheep horns anymore.
The Clerical script is
in which the horns became two dots, short horns.
The Pinyin for 羊 is "Yang2"
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